The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding) with a leading Indian body of industry to boost the participation of Indian companies in the 2022 Fifa World Cup Qatar infrastructure projects.

Larsen & Toubro has secured a contract to build a $135-million stadium for Qatar's 2022 World Cup, an official told Reuters on Monday, a boost for the Indian firm facing a slowdown in its key Middle East market due to low oil prices.

Five years on from being controversially awarded the right to host the world's most-watched sporting event, the construction work on six of at least eight venues that will be in used for the 2022 World Cup has begun, said a report.

Organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have indicated they will not relinquish the right to host football's showpiece event easily, whatever the fall-out from Sepp Blatter's decision to step down as Fifa president.
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UK-based Foster and Partners, a leading architecture firm, has been awarded the contract to design the stadium that will host the final of the Fifa 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a report said.
The stadium, which will have a seating cap

The World Cup final in Qatar in 2022 should be played no later than December 18, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Friday.
Blatter, who arrived in Northern Ireland for this weekend's International Football Association Board

Plans for the multi-million dinar development of Bahrain's east coast are being drawn up with one eye on the Fifa World Cup due to take place in Qatar in 2022, a report said.
The Southern Municipal Council wants to promote inv

The Fifa Task Force set up to recommend the best time of year to stage the 2022 World Cup in Qatar were always in an impossible position, from the moment they sat down to consider the options.
But Tuesday's recommendation to s

The 2022 World Cup must be held in November or December, the head of Fifa's task-force looking into dates for the Qatar tournament told British media.
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa, the Asian Football Confederation head

The long-running saga over the timing of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be settled in March, Fifa's executive committee decided on Friday.
January/February, May and November/December have been put forward as alternatives for